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Outstanding work mate! Very many congratulations!

Big foot ....ha ha...no seriously .. Whatever it was spooked this deer ,as it ran past me,.. made a hellish crashing noise,what with the non stop rain ,thunder ,lightning, was a night to remember.. ( I loved it )...

Might be on an earner…You should try eating it could be truffles 😂

Wow What a breathtaking pic Congrats on a great pb

Yes what is it ? , the poo of one of those big cats that roam about leaving tantilising clues of their existance ? .

Lovely looking dog , Roughtor , sad loss indeed .

Look at the tail on this rocket ,I had a hellish battle with it in about 30ft of water I reckon ,it was jet propelled.. I also had 12 others ,similar to my first pic ,but didn't want put em all up., just lovely to be out in raw nature ..

Sorry mate ,I should have explained better ,it's scat ...there's a lot of wildlife out there some if which is unaccounted for ,all sorts .. I've seen stuff ....

Excuse my ignorance but. What is that???

Well I picked a good day to log back in . Congratulations on the pb hell of a common that mate 😎 And thanks for the welcome back lads 😎

Also during the storm, I heard a right commotion behind me in the woods and saw a roe dissappear like a rocket past me in the half light ,in the morning I put my 'tracking ,predation head on ' and soon found this ...

Where I live there is an abundance of disused ,deep quarries,some are barren,and fishless...but a few have some surprises and have held carp and other species for many years .. When you fish these places,you have to think like a miner ,and find the galleries, which are mined ,and step down into unimaginable depths ,find the galleries and you find the patrol routes.. The weather was awful ,I had a river running under my shelter,at one point ,wind,rain,hail,thunder,lightning..and a big fear of falling branches made it interesting..,then all the mica,clay residue gets everywhere...anyway .. I found the marginal gallery, and fished very simple running lead tactics ,using the Ressi specials I use a lot..After the storm had passed ,I seen kingfisher,heard deer rutting,and woodpeckers, nature at its best ..

As with everything when you play around with your own bait there are no hard and fast rules, what i would say is the liquid would probably not get as good a distribution of liquid right the way through the bait as it will only get drawn into mainly the outer layers, whhich will effect the amount of the the liquid remains in the boilie, or flipping it again only add alittle bit of liquid when making the bait and let it soak inot the outer layers using what the method you described

Wow😍 😍😍😍 that is next level, congrats Mr Guns that is a mega stunning beauty. Well done Yonny for making it happen too it would have been criminal not to share this one 😏 good luck for the rest of the trip 👍

Wow ,that's fantastic ,great photo .. Need to have that framed and put on your wall..

Iv seen 2 cars with 4 anglers unloading where they shouldn’t have been and got told to leave the fishery….the cars were parked by a no unloading area

Don’t know how long the guys had been fishing in the swim before we got there.They could be innocent or if there not they could just say there was no sign. Maybe some (censored) got peed off not finding a swim and took it out on the sign. When we book again il phone up the day before and on the day to make sure all is good.

And down the lake ,well not 'in the lake ' at the point lol...

Simple overhand loop knot, but large enough so that the knot doesn't go into the boilie as you thread it. If it is still a problem, drill the boilie before putting it on the hair, something I do with rock hard baits anyway. If you glug them in a glycerol based bait soak, it can be worth putting them on a half cocktail stick before soaking. Nothing worse than hands that smell totally fishy and it won't wash off...

Here's my Casper having a pint down by our local pub.. Like as mentioned ,kind words indeed,I looked at him as my little buddy spoilt rotten ,but well trained and socialised very well...( except near water lol 😂

Absolutely next level mate! Awesome! Edit: what a shot too. Fantastic photo of a fantastic carp.

Ha! I’ve been lurking and not contributing for some time now but a new PB is worth sharing….. I’m still on a session at Dinton’s Black Swan as I type this………Arrived at dawn yesterday. Clearly lots of fish still in the big ‘winter bay’ despite being on the back of a big SW. Lapped a couple of times, debating where to plot up with 3 nights ahead. Decided to keep it simple and put my rigs where the fish were actually showing rather than where they might end up…… Cast 3 singles out for drops amongst the emergent Eel grass which they seem so attracted to. Decided to get my head down for a couple of hours-I’d set off at 2.45am. An hour or so later I’m woken by a screaming Neville. Lifted in to a very heavy feeling fish which was dogged rather than spectacular. Worryingly, it hit the surface about 25 yds out and started shaking its head at me as I led it in; with braided mainline I’m always anxious when they do this with no water depth to cushion the lunges. Fortune was on my side and I netted a Common that got larger with every yard I gained. With the assistance of 3 other anglers we weighed and photographed an amazing creature of 53lb 2oz! Blown away!

Hoping @Pete Springate's Guns gives us the low down on his latest result!

You can always tell when someone is lying, proving it can be tougher, surely they walk each lake once a day? Would be it be too hard to print out all the bookings on the complex and check them daily?

Threw £20 at a little temu haul, pair of croc type shoes for any night time dashes (more to the tiolet than the rods these days 😆), water bucket to replace my leaky old one, bait spoons, tackle pouch and some bait pots for my pop ups, plus some tiny pots ideal for soaking zig foam in, all in all pretty happy